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| SusieQue |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 6:32:15 PM
Any others planning on a fall garden? I want to try some butternut squash but have never tried to grow them before. I know we will plant turnip greens. Usually we don't grow anything after summer, but we want to try this year since our summer garden was a disaster.
"A mother is someone you never outgrow your need for" |
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| Annab |
Posted - Sep 03 2008 : 05:47:13 AM
Oh yes.
I just posted on a topic very similar to this.
All our summer crops are gone. There are a few watermelon already picked from a few days ago just sitting in the trailer. Last night i whipped up the last of our zucchini. It was a real whopper and we were able to use it for 3 meals.
So we have planted collards, a turnip patch, onions, and 75 cabbages!! The egg plant came on late, so that will do well until the first frost. And my everbearing raspberries will keep on until it freezes too. even then i'll be able to pluck at leat 1 berry a day. Those plants just refuse to die.
This afternoon I'll be constructing a fence made of wooden stakes and bailing twine.....to keep those wiley chickens out and afford timy plants a chance to get bigger |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Aug 31 2008 : 09:24:16 AM
LISA, yes, I compost. I just started working on my raised beds for next spring's planting. I am using 3 year old compost. Beautiful. you gotta be a real farm girl to call decomposed garbage, plants and chicken poo, beautiful.
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| LisaLu |
Posted - Aug 31 2008 : 08:59:10 AM
I will be planting my fall crop today. Lots of lettuce, peas, beans, carrotts, tomatoes. I've never had collard greens. What do you do with them? I'm guessing you steam & smother in bacon grease? I'd love some ideas.....we don't eat them here in CALIF.
My husband built me a fruitstand for my b-day, it runs on the honor system....I made enough in 2 weeks to go out and buy a chipper. Now I can shread up all the spent plants from the garden, and put it back into the compost pile. The circle of life with a profit!!!! Does anyone else compost?
Happiness is homemade... |
| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Aug 28 2008 : 1:53:40 PM
I agree, our food supply is just plain scary. What really bothers me is that I know there are things they don't tell us about that we wouldn't eat if we knew. I'm thinking of making a cold frame and trying to at least keep myself in lettuce and radishes through the winter.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
| Alee |
Posted - Aug 28 2008 : 08:45:06 AM
I am seriously considering growing a small garden in my sewing room this winter.
Kristin- Yes, it is scary what the conventional farming and super markets can do to our food. Your best bet for when you have to go to the store is to look for a Food Co-Op or Organic market. It sounds like you are doing an awesome job! Your farm sounds great!!
Alee
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 28 2008 : 07:35:00 AM
Hey ya'll, I was just skipping around and saw the garden question. I have been concerned about where my food comes from for awhli now. Especially when I saw on the news the other nite that growers can irradiate our lettuce now so it will last longer and kill all the "bad bacteria". So I have planted spinach, lettuce, turnit, collard and mustard greens, baens, squash, beets, cabbage carrots and my favorit Buussels sprouts. Does anyone else just LOVE those? They do so much better in cold weather. So we should be set. I make our bread and we have milk goats and chickens. I hardly ever go to the store. Have fun gardening. Kris |
| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Aug 27 2008 : 3:42:03 PM
I threw out a very radishes, lettuce and spinach and asked mom to water while I was gone. It's so wonderful that she is there right now.
Best Growing |
| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - Aug 27 2008 : 2:45:02 PM
I was so inspired by everyone's enthusiasum for a fall garden I went out last Wednesday evening and planted beans and peas on the arbors in my front yard. And they are already 2-3 inches tall. Now I'm really excited about my fall garden and hopefull that I'll have better luck than in the spring. |
| frolicnfibers |
Posted - Aug 23 2008 : 7:25:14 PM
I agree Jenn, If we are getting garlic from China, that is really scary. Time to plant much bigger gardens for our families! My garden was pretty good this year...the tomatoes and squash are outstanding and the corn is fair. My beans didn't do squat though, and so now I'm on my second round. If at first you don't succeed....:)
Diana
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Aug 21 2008 : 07:14:17 AM
Peas! Thanks for reminding me. I am going out and plant some right now. Along with collards. The worms took most of my spring crop of collards and the deer ate my swiss chard. But when there is an empty raised bed, I'll plant anyway. |
| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 09:17:46 AM
I'm gonna plant several crops that have short growing seasons or like cooler weather and see if I have better luck. Also, onions and garlic for next year.
I was soooo shocked last night while making dinner. I had run out of garlic so bought a pack of 6 heads from the store. When I went to open the little mesh bag said from CHINA. Was it the bag or the garlic? And, if it was the garlic, why the heck are we getting garlic from CHINA! Gilroy - Garlic Capital of the U.S. is just a few hundred miles north of me. Makes NO sense. |
| Ms.Lilly |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 07:27:53 AM
I too can only plant cool weather crops now. I have put some peas in the ground and am headed out to the greenhouse today to start my lettuce and others. Garlic is ordered and should be here in a few weeks, this will be my first real attempt with garlic. I have 1 tomato that I kept in the greenhouse this summer and I am going to nurse it along for as long as possible.
Lillian |
| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 05:04:38 AM
Hi farmgirls,
I'm going to plant garlic for next year, which reminds me, I guess I better get that ordered.
Warmly,
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
| abigailc1973 |
Posted - Aug 20 2008 : 04:37:44 AM
Hi Girls. I just planted some more pole beans, peas and collards. I also am nursing some cauliflower and watermelon I had started in June, never tried it down here before. We used to grow it up in MI when I was a girl. My bell peppers are still doing great, I've heard they'll keep going for years down here if you protect them from frost. We'll see. In a few weeks my tomato plants I started will be ready to repot again. I have some Brandywines, Beefsteaks, Rutgers and am trying some called Fourth of July. I'd like to try a couple the upside down way, but am going to wait until hurricane season is over, so I won't have to move them. In a couple weeks, I'll plant a variety of eggplant, Sugar Peas, seminole pumpkins, radishes, gold beets, and another round of zuchinni. Down here, I try to have at least tomato plants going all year and just baby them during the winter months when we might get a cold snap. A lot of times my fall garden tends to do better than my summer. Between the florida sun, pests and sooty mold-it can get to be a struggle. It can be hard to keep them watered if it's not raining good, with all the water restrictions and such. I think I need a couple rain barrels. I might even get some corn in if possible. Mind you ladies, I have a very tiny area. Some things get rotated around in the ground but most of my veggies are actually grown in containers, which do dry out quicker. It's kind of fun to see what you can get to produce in containers. I like to experiment. |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 8:28:45 PM
Susie:
I'm in Louisiana, so the growing season is longer for me, too. I thought about another garden but those green worms did it for me. LOL I don't think I can handle that twice a year. Those things are just so gross, I couldn't even see them. Gross!
Marly |
| acairnsmom |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 7:34:34 PM
I'm afraid all I can plant now are the cool season crops. I want to plant more peas, lettuces, radish...
If we can get some extra money, DH and I want to build the greenhouse that MJ featured in her last magazine. At least that way we hope we will be able to have fresh salads through December maybe? Lettuce is so easy to grow I HATE having to buy it in the winter! Never tried it on a windowsill though.
Toto, we're not in Kansas any more! |
| Georgia Girl |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 7:07:58 PM
Susie,
Fall gardens do awesome in GA because it never really gets cold here. I usually plant the end of August. I have grown collards all winter long until we have a really hard frost. Good luck!
~Denise~
Proud Farmgirl Sister #113
http://mybigcityfarm.blogspot.com/ |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Aug 19 2008 : 6:43:23 PM
Susie, I planted garden today. A couple of lettuce blends, radish, onions, green beans and some French Filet beans. Butternut squash takes a long time. But being in GA, you may get to do that. |
